And God made man, according to the image of God He made him, male and female He made them.

And Adam gave names to all the cattle and to all the birds of the sky, and to all the wild beasts of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper comparable to himself.

And God formed the rib which he took from Adam into a woman, and brought her to Adam.

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother and shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,'

So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate."

But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female.'

'and the two shall become one flesh'; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh.

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let each [man] have his own wife, and let each [woman] have her own husband.

And God formed the man of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.

verily, while my breath is yet in me, and the breath of God which remains to me is in my nostrils,

[before] the dust also return to the earth as it was, and the spirit return to God who gave it.

And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit.

and I will make you swear by the Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, that you take not a wife for my son Isaac from the daughters of the Canaanites, with whom I dwell, in the midst of them.

And the servant said to him, Shall I carry back your son to the land from which you came from, if the woman should not be willing to return happily with me to this land?

The Lord, the God of heaven, and the God of the earth, who took me out of my father's house, and out of the land from which I sprang, who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, I will give this land to you and to your seed, He shall send His angel before you, and you shall take a wife to my son from there.

And Esau was forty years old; and he took as wives Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.

And they were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebecca.

And Rebecca said to Isaac, I am weary of my life, because of the daughters of the sons of Heth; if Jacob shall take a wife of the daughters of this land, where then should I live?

Rise and depart quickly into Mesopotamia, to the house of Bethuel the father of your mother, and take to yourself a wife of the daughters of Laban, your mother's brother.

And may He give you the blessing of my father Abraham, even to you and to your seed after you, to inherit the land of your sojourning, which God gave to Abraham.

For he will draw away your son from Me, and he will serve other gods; and the Lord will be very angry with you, and will soon utterly destroy you.

Then there assembled to me all that followed the word of the God of Israel, on account of the transgression of the captivity; and I remained mourning until the evening sacrifice.

And their children spoke half in the language of Ashdod, and did not know how to speak in the Jewish language.

Yet I planted you a fruitful vine, entirely of the right sort- how are you a strange vine turned to bitterness!

For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified by the wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified by the husband; otherwise your children would be unclean, but now they are holy.

And fathers, do not provoke your children, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

one ruling his own house well, having [his] children in submission with all reverence;

(for if one does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?);

Likewise their wives must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

Let deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children well, and their own houses.

if a man is unimpeachable, the husband of one wife, having faithful children not accused of dissipation or [who are] insubordinate.

[ 6:3] that the sons of God, having seen the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, took to themselves wives of all whom they chose.

Yet the number of the children of Israel was as the sand of the sea, which shall not be measured nor numbered: and it shall come to pass, [that] in the place where it was said to them, You are not My people, even they shall be called the sons of the living God.

You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, 'And in your offspring all the families of the earth shall be blessed.'

"I will be a Father to you, and you will be My sons and daughters, says the LORD Almighty."

Yet you said, For what reason? Because the Lord has borne witness between you and the wife of your youth, whom you have forsaken, and yet she was your partner, and the wife of your covenant.

Keep your heart with the utmost care, for out of these are the issues of life.

Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be caught by her eyes, or captivated with her eyelids.

Let not your heart turn aside to her ways,

But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman in order to lust after her has already committed adultery [with] her in his heart.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and cast it from you; for it is better for you that one of your members be lost, than for your whole body to be cast into hell.

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.

But each [one] is tempted by his own lusts, being drawn away and being seduced [by them].

Then lust, when it conceives, gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.